X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Surrey Hills


O'Shannassy Reservoir

A diversion weir on the O'Shannassy River and aqueduct/pipeline to the Surrey Hills Reservoir in Melbourne were completed in 1914.

Surrey Hills

Surrey Hills AONB - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Surrey, England

Surrey Hills, Victoria

The streets were planted mainly with avenues of Pin Oak and Plane trees, which are now mature and offer a pleasant shady vista.

The latter streets are named after English places (Croydon, Guildford & Surrey) and Sir Garnet Road, named in honour of a famous British Army General (Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, born in Ireland, who served a distinguished career and became a hero in the British army in the late 1800s & early 1900).

Surrey Hills contains both the 'English Counties District', which is a small area between Canterbury and Riversdale Roads, where the streets are named after English Counties, including Norfolk, Durham, Kent, Middlesex, Essex and Suffolk Roads and the 'Chatham Precinct', which is located between Canterbury, Union, Mont Albert & Chatham Roads.


2003 Melbourne thunderstorm

Rail company Connex Melbourne announced that flooding and power damage at Blackburn, Surrey Hills and Boronia railway stations would cause transport delays the following day.

Surry Hills, New South Wales

His property was known as Surry Hills Farm, after the Surrey Hills in Surrey, England.


see also